The largest shareholder in Metals X has sold a big line of stock and foreshadowed further sales, as the diversified miner announced plans to invest $15 million developing its Fortnum gold project.
The state government plans to cancel a new environmental review of the controversial Roe 8 highway extension project after winning a legal appeal today, but it remains unclear when contracts for the project will be awarded.
Financial stocks have led the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials to record highs after JPMorgan's strong quarterly results, while upbeat economic data cemented bets that the current rally on Wall Street can chug along.
Oil prices have risen close to two per cent as traders cover short positions a day after crude futures were hammered by data showing weak US fuel demand in a busy summer driving season that heightened fears about a global oil glut.
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NBN Company has awarded contracts to six companies to deliver the national broadband network to homes and businesses in the Telstra hybrid-fibre coaxial network.
A long-awaited state government report on the future of remote indigenous communities doesn't overtly refer to closures controversially flagged in late 2014, but promises to direct funding towards 10 of the biggest.
LandCorp has released design guidelines for the redevelopment of Bassendean Oval, flagging development of up to eight storeys around the Swan Districts Football Club home ground.
Uranium company Berkeley Energia, chaired by Perth dealmaker Ian Middlemas, plans to spend $125 million developing a mine in Spain, with the expectation that demand for yellowcake will ramp up by 2018 when the mine opens.
The state government has flagged the possibility of a broad inquiry into the use of imported building materials after confirming today that roofing panels supplied by Chinese company Yuanda to Perth Children’s Hospital contained asbestos.
Sandfire Resources has lodged a mining lease application for the development of its majority-owned Monty copper-gold project, located near its flagship DeGrussa mine.
Water Corporation will spend $232 million to double the capacity of its water recycling plant in Craigie, which is designed to boost Perth's drinking water supplies.
Moving state government departments out of Perth’s central business district into regional and urban centres will have social benefits, according to Environment Minister Albert Jacob, as the government announced today the shift of 800 staff to a Primewest development in Joondalup.
Brazilian federal prosecutors say they have opened an investigation into alleged environmental crimes by Roberto Carvalho, chief executive of BHP Billiton co-owned company Samarco Minerao SA, over a deadly damburst last year.
Gold has risen one per cent, recovering from its lowest in nearly two weeks, as prospects for further economic stimulus helped to bolster investor appetite while the US dollar remain flat.
US stocks have ticked up, just enough for the S&P 500 and Dow industrials to set record highs, with investors expecting upbeat earnings to keep the rally going.
Turnbull holds AAA line on ‘solid’ budget forecastsPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dismissed fears that a sudden slump in government revenue would tri
